Salt Dreams: Land & Water in Low-Down California

Description

Author: deBuys, William

Photographer: Myers, Joan

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Upper front cover corner has 5 or 6 spots that look like the remnants/outlines of some liquid (coffee?).  The cover is not wrinkled, though the first 5 or 6 pages have some discoloration on the upper corner.   Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Water, the border between California and Mexico, agriculture, environmental degradation, Native American rights, ticky-tacky development–all issues faced by the area around the Salton Sea.  This area, desolate as it may be, is the source of approximately 1/3 of the winter vegetables for the United States, and as such, one of the biggest users of water in the state of California.  What’s it gonna be–kale or the Colorado River?